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http://www.interest.co.nz Panel 1 with this chart UN chief Ban Ki Moon Calls for end to food tariffs To improve food shortage Wants output doubled Criticised biofuels Panel 2 Greens want Fonterra subsidies Subsidies are wrong Make poor hungrier Genocide by remote control United Nations chief Ban Ki Moon Called on rich nations to drop farming subsidies and trade barriers Crisis summit on world food World Bank reckons higher food prices will push 100 million people into hunger Mr Ban reckons dealing with the food crisis could cost US$20 bln He thinks food supply needs to double by 2030 to solve world hunger Surprisingly he targeted subsidies and tariffs EU spends $62 billion a year on CAP US spends many billions more Mr Ban also criticized others such as China and Japan who have restricted exports Japan agreed to re-export 300,000 of exported rice Mr Ban criticized the shift in land use and food use into biofuels US plans to use quarter of maize crop for biofuels by 2022 Europe wants to get 10% of auto fuel from crops by 2020 Even in New Zealand, bastion of free trade, the Green Party has asked Fonterra to charge lower prices for milk in NZ than overseas, essentially a subsidy Lesson is subsidies and tariffs stop rich countries buying food from poor countries It also raises the price of food globally Subsidies incentivize the wrong type of production Subsidies and trade barriers cause starvation and poverty They need to be dropped Rich are protecting their farmers Allowing poor people to starve and keeping prices high for all European bureaucrats CAP and US food lobbyists and lawmakers are committing by remote control a slow, insidious form of genocide

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cheers

yeah.... right

Your demeanour is slowly getting more and more argumentative. Revealing, your intolerance, rather than your intelligence. ' Case in point if I was to look at the final result of ANY thing I could form an opinion to reverse economics, Just like yours

My challenge is to look for your self, if you find something diffrent to where i can see the paper trail, then your claim stands, i'll shut up, but until then, back up your (so called) intel with some greater understanding Mr. PEAK Oil NZ.

and yet, Uncle Helen hands them out like lollie's, Fonterra, telecom, empower, all listed profit, tell me there not subsidized

I wasn't saying it had anything to do with Rockerfellers, but as linuxluver is outlining its back to the esence of the statement. there not intrested in suply and demand, there intrested in redirecting there subsidies back into there own pockets.. And you still havn't answered my question

who really controlls a market, the consumer, the reserve bank.. or the profitier. to quote a well known saying, ' i care not for your religion, faith, or belife, if i control their financial stablilty, i can rule the world..'- Rockerfella

if the carlile group left some of that land for the Hesians to grow there food rather than plants for bio fuel. there wouldnt be a problem.. they've been able to extract ethonol from sugar cane for years, all of a sudden its not good enough for domestic use.. answer this.. indy cars (yes even scotty dixon) have started performance racing with sugarcane dirived ethonol, why use coco plant or any other substitute. its yeild for grater profit rather than ecological economy based decision..

IMF/World Bank "economic medicine" is not the "solution" but in large part the "cause" of famine in developing countries. More IMF-World Bank lending "to boost agriculture" will serve to increase levels of indebtedness and exacerbate rather alleviate poverty. World Bank "policy based loans" are granted on condition the countries abide by the neoliberal policy agenda which, since the early 1980s, has been conducive to the collapse of local level food agriculture.

So you think the people in Haiti are just imagining that they're starving?

I'm also not convinced that the highest price anywhere needs to be OUR price. If corn becomes more expensive for barn-sheltered, corn-fed US dairy cows, then why should our milk from grass fed livestock become me expensive? We don't sell milk to the US. In fact, they have protected their market.

As population grows, more food needs to be grown. But as population grows, it tends to live on top of land that used to be used to grow food. As concentration of the channels of distributing food grows, the prices to farmers drop even as the profits of those selling the food rises. Farmers cease growing food....even though there is demand there for it,but farmers aren't getting enough of the money to be able to afford to grow it. This all needs careful looking at.

i think the food shortage ordeal is as exagerated as the global warming warning.